“Better to sink beneath the shock than moulder piecemeal on the rock.”
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“Who hath not proved how feebly words essay to fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray?”
“It ceased, and then it came again, the sweetest song ear ever heard.”
“There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.”
“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
“Table talk and lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.”
“Mothers' arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.”
“A good mayor is a good thing. Are you afraid of the good you can do?”
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
“For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.”
“Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.”
“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”
“Life has become a bitter drink to me, and yet I must take it like medicine, slowly, drop by drop.”